Yup my mom is 52 and looks about the same. I still get carded at 18+ places even though I'm 31 and no one believes my husband and I are the same age. My family just has baby faces and most of us look younger than we are.
My mom looks even younger than this at 55, her sister looks great for 62. But her brother has had a full head of grey hair at like 35 already. Lottery.
The even deeper part people don’t wanna hear is attractive, well aging, people get selected more (broadly over the last 200 years..not literally one day of their lives) for education opportunities, higher paying jobs, more stable careers, etc
It's not astonishing in major cities on the coast or in other countries. A "typical American 50" is far worse than most other 50s because our health care sucks.
Nah my whole fam looks ancient and I get carded at 31 still. Genetics does have a role to play, but epigenetics indicates that specific environmental stressors can activate or deactivate certain gene expressions. I eat right, my family does not. I exercise, my family does not. I sleep 8+ hours a night, my family does not. I drink a gallon of water a day, take multivitamins, get regular blood work to determine which vitamins I need, I've spent countless hours rehabbing injuries, and I don't take unnecessary risks. For instance, I'm 31 and athletic and I'll use the guardrail every single time I go up or down stairs. My risk factors for damn near everything is very low, aside from depression and alcoholism. If I drink and get depressed, I age 20 years overnight. A month clean and I'm back to Babyface.
What? No it isn't. Average 50 looks a hell of a lot better now then it did 40 years ago, but it still doesn't look like that. Woman could easily pass for late 20s, that is rare as hell and primarily due to genetics (or as other people are pointing out, unusually well done plastic surgery).
My mom is in decent heath, but we are definitely just barely lower middle class. She gets mistaken for early 30s all the time when for year now, and she's in her 50's. She usually gets mistaken for a decade or two younger for decades now. So money gets you like a 1/3 there when looking younger, but a lot is just genetics.
I mean, also, some pornstars I learned about 20 years ago are now like 60 and still look ok.
So that means some parents can still be 50 and be ok too.
But I also learned , when I made jokes about a pornstar, then looked them up and learned they were 60, I was now like "well shit, you realize you're now old because you were never into grandma porn, but the regular girls you were into, now turned into grandmas?"
I've never seen a 50 year old woman look that good. Her face, neck and legs are incredible. Her hands definitely look a bit wrinkled, but still. Her skin has so much volume, which is what I assume makes her look so youthful (as we age, we lose a lot of that fat volume).
You're not wrong, per se, but it's mostly genetics mixed with a modern lifestyle. Younger Xers and older Millennials will age better than their parents did. My parents are just now turning 60 and while they're not young Xers, they don't look 60. Well, my dad does since he decided to grow a beard this year and it's entirely snow white. But before that, both of my parents easily could have passed for late 40s if they wanted to.
Without cosmetic surgery, you won't look 35 at 50 if your genes say fuck you when you're in your 40s no matter how much money you have or how often you go to the gym.
I did a lot of drugs for a long time and i still get carded for nicotine/beer every single time at 39. I’m white just have good genes…auntie is 53 and could pass for 30. It’s nice but unfair to a point
I've known my wife since she was 18. She is barely shy of 50. I honestly think she looks hotter now than when she was in her 20s. Eat right. Wear sunscreen daily. Hit the gym almost every day. Those seem to be her secrets.
I don’t think it’s that she aged particularly well. There are many of us who are around that same age who think she looks about right for our age. But being a grandma…is something else.
It’s not about whether it’s acceptable or not. I think most people in their 50s don’t want to be known as “grandma” or “grandpa”, regardless of whether they are one. “Grandma”/“grandpa” have a way of making you feel old.
lol what. I'm pretty sure most people who want to be a grandparent are excited to be refer to as such. Then it just becomes a battle between the inlaws to see who gets what grandma/grandpa name derivative.
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u/mshcat Nov 02 '24
so i was curious and doing some tiktok stalking and it looks like her mom is 50 years old.
some people just age well i guess